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hi, i'm a bit late but i'll give it a go anyway... hope someone's still reading!

i'm white, middle class, cis, temporarily able bodied, queer female, 30. i live in london, uk and have done for a long long time but am swedish by passport. so far i haven't used my dreamwidth account very much but i'm planning to start using it more so this meme is very timely as i've not managed to make many friends on here yet!

i will be using dw to blog about thing's that i'm passionate about as well as a general space to rant, dissect privilege (my own and others'), plus i'm trying to start externalising some issues related to depression/anxiety which have been taking up too much space in my head lately, hopefully from a somewhat political angle (thinking through connections between mental health, privilege, oppression etc) not just wallowing self-destructive stuff (i'll try to keep that to a minimum!). The more personal stuff will be under lock but i'm mostly happy to give people access - the lock is more to avoid certain people i know in real life reading it.

so, things i'm passionate about! issues related to social justice, in particular (intersectional!) feminist, anti-racist and queer politics. i'm currently in my second year of a part-time phd on British feminism and race. i have a love-hate relationship to feminism due to historical and ongoing exclusionary (racist, transphobic, classist etc.) politics practiced in its name and i spend quite a lot of time going on about that.

plus i like music and books and stuff...

i know this is more about what i plan to write about than what i have already written, so you may be a bit sceptical... but i'm hoping that making some new connections with people on here will help spur me on to start writing more. i'm adding quite a few people who have posted on here, so i look forward to seeing folks around!